(Original post by Duffking)
Steam's fine, actually online functionality varies from game to game. Valve stuff was OK for me though I did have trouble joining games hosted by my mate who was in the same halls.

All ports expect the ones they know to be safe will be blocked. Steam downloads usually are at 1MB/s in halls, and games like TF2 which uses port 27015 or similar are not blocked so online play is possible. 3rd party steam games will have different port requirements and those will not be open, therefore you will need to use a VPN. If you like games, join the cardiff gaming society.

(Original post by Duffking)
Xbox Live is actually blocked on Reslan, there's a few easy ways round the block though. Notably the MAC address trick from the first page of this thread.

The mac address trick does allow the xbox to be masked as a PC (because you can only register on the reslan service using a mac address), however are the Xbox Live ports actually unblocked?

If you wanted PSN or Xbox access, use a VPN service, and then share your wifi connection with your PS3 or xbox and connect via the wifi. That way you will be playing through the VPN, however I cant say all this hassle is going to be worth it. Specially if the VPN is laggy, or you realise you are falling behind on coursework

(Original post by viperfx)
The mac address trick does allow the xbox to be masked as a PC (because you can only register on the reslan service using a mac address), however are the Xbox Live ports actually unblocked?

If you wanted PSN or Xbox access, use a VPN service, and then share your wifi connection with your PS3 or xbox and connect via the wifi. That way you will be playing through the VPN, however I cant say all this hassle is going to be worth it. Specially if the VPN is laggy, or you realise you are falling behind on coursework

Actually RESLAN automatically stops working the moment you try to share its connection with another device/over Wi-fi, so that wouldn't work unless you used a more obscure method of connection sharing that RESLAN couldn't detect.

(Original post by RightSaidJames)
Actually RESLAN automatically stops working the moment you try to share its connection with another device/over Wi-fi, so that wouldn't work unless you used a more obscure method of connection sharing that RESLAN couldn't detect.

Hmm thats strange, because Ive shared my connection between my netbook and desktop many times. I used something called connectify to share the ethernet connection, I could connect my android phone and netbook at the same time.

(Original post by viperfx)
Hmm thats strange, because Ive shared my connection between my netbook and desktop many times. I used something called connectify to share the ethernet connection, I could connect my android phone and netbook at the same time.

Ah, okay. All I'd tried when I was in halls was setting up a Wi-Fi network then sharing it over Ethernet by bridging the connections, which was the point at which RESLAN stopped working. I hadn't tried using third-party software, mainly because I couldn't find any.

I doubt I'll miss Xbox Live too much, but I'll certainly try and get it working.

It's a bad year to go to Uni as a gamer. So much is coming out in the next 6 months. I'd love to get MW3 on the Xbox, as well as Fifa 12 but it wouldn't be worth it without online play. Skyrim comes out too, but thankfully that's single player.

I'd be interested in seeing a few things on the computer. Apparently the original Guild Wars is permitted to connect via RESLAN, so fingers crossed that Guild Wars 2 will be able to connect as well.
Modern Warfare 2 on the PC apparently connects, so again, hopefully MW3 will on the PC.